I hardly need to repeat myself to regular readers: the entertainment industry is attempting to use technology to enforce a vision of intellectual property directly contradictory to that of our nation's founders, who saw copyright and patent not only as expressions of current benefit for creators of IP, but also as future impetus to create new IP based on existing IP... replacing that with a vision of total ownership and control of transmission media and equipment forever.
(H/T ellroon.)
(Oh, come fucking on... "movie" is not in Firefox's default spelling checker dictionary! Oh, wait, now I see: for the second time this week, Mozilla has forced a change from my manually entered en_US to en_GB. Do they really want me to switch once and for all to Google Chrome? That's where I'm headed if this nonsense doesn't stop...)
Mozilla wants you to spell honor like honour and stuff? We'll all write better if we use the Queen's English, you know. Pip Pip cheerio and what what!
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"Mozilla wants you to spell honor like honour and stuff?"
Delete"She offered her honour, he honoured her offer, and all of the night..." somehow it just isn't the same!
It's taken me decades to mostly stop listing things as "firstly, . . . ; secondly, . . . ; thirdly, . . ."
ReplyDeleteOne would think Mozilla would stick to whichever language one had chosen . . .
Pity that.
Yep, I still cringe when I hear 11ty dimensional.
DeleteStrunk and White would hang you for that, c... but there seems to be no consensus even among grammarians on the matter. Actually, I have no objection to the Queen's English in its own context, but I do believe that, as the Queen does not rule here, neither should Her English.
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